Azure Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing Azure 67 54 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 10.57% 11.84% 10.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.18% 36.99% 34.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 39 45
10th Percentile £300 £370 £435
25th Percentile £344 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £535 £593
Median % change year-on-year -15.89% -9.78% -1.17%
75th Percentile £539 £622 £688
90th Percentile £600 £646 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £507 £550
% change year-on-year -6.31% -7.82% +4.76%

All Cloud Skills
South Yorkshire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 196 146 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 30.91% 32.02% 31.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 96 112
10th Percentile £280 £275 £402
25th Percentile £354 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £515 £593
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% -13.15% +7.82%
75th Percentile £538 £592 £625
90th Percentile £600 £641 £699
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £495 £525
% change year-on-year -4.04% -5.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - £18.65
25th Percentile - £20.50 £18.88
Median hourly rate - £21.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +10.26% +2.63%
75th Percentile - £22.00 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
Yorkshire median hourly rate £91.69 £21.50 £21.26
% change year-on-year +326.47% +1.15% -3.39%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 13 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield -4 65 £450 -18.18% 27
Doncaster +4 1 £300 -40.00% 10
Azure
Yorkshire

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (7.46%) Confluence
2 2 (2.99%) CICS
2 2 (2.99%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.99%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.99%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.49%) Apache
3 1 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.49%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.49%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.49%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 39 (58.21%) AWS
2 35 (52.24%) GCP
3 16 (23.88%) Entra ID
4 15 (22.39%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (20.90%) Azure AKS
5 14 (20.90%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (19.40%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (13.43%) SaaS
8 8 (11.94%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (11.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 6 (8.96%) GitHub
10 3 (4.48%) Akamai
10 3 (4.48%) Power Platform
11 2 (2.99%) Cloudflare
11 2 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (1.49%) AWS CloudTrail
12 1 (1.49%) Azure Storage
12 1 (1.49%) Mimecast
12 1 (1.49%) OneDrive
12 1 (1.49%) VULTR
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.45%) Firewall
2 3 (4.48%) VPN
3 2 (2.99%) HTTP
3 2 (2.99%) HTTPS
3 2 (2.99%) LAN
3 2 (2.99%) SAN
3 2 (2.99%) WAN
4 1 (1.49%) 4G
4 1 (1.49%) Broadband
4 1 (1.49%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.49%) FCoE
4 1 (1.49%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (1.49%) iSCSI
4 1 (1.49%) ISDN
4 1 (1.49%) MPLS
4 1 (1.49%) Multicast
4 1 (1.49%) NAS
4 1 (1.49%) PSTN
4 1 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.93%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (7.46%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.48%) Power BI
4 2 (2.99%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.99%) Metadata
4 2 (2.99%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.99%) Spark SQL
4 2 (2.99%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.49%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.49%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.49%) MySQL
5 1 (1.49%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (20.90%) JIRA
2 13 (19.40%) Jenkins
3 9 (13.43%) SoapUI
4 8 (11.94%) Postman
5 3 (4.48%) Selenium
6 2 (2.99%) Git
6 2 (2.99%) GitLab
6 2 (2.99%) JUnit
6 2 (2.99%) TestNG
7 1 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.49%) Zephyr
General
1 26 (38.81%) Social Skills
2 16 (23.88%) Finance
3 10 (14.93%) Banking
4 5 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.97%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.48%) Law
7 2 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.99%) Police
8 1 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.49%) Private Banking
8 1 (1.49%) Retail
8 1 (1.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (28.36%) Analyst
2 14 (20.90%) Developer
3 10 (14.93%) Business Analyst
4 8 (11.94%) Test Analyst
5 6 (8.96%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (7.46%) Architect
6 5 (7.46%) IT Support
7 4 (5.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) IT Analyst
7 4 (5.97%) IT Support Analyst
7 4 (5.97%) Support Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 3 (4.48%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) Angular Developer
9 2 (2.99%) Automation Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) DevOps Developer
9 2 (2.99%) Infrastructure Architect
9 2 (2.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.43%) JSON
1 9 (13.43%) SAML
2 8 (11.94%) OAuth
2 8 (11.94%) OpenID
3 7 (10.45%) Regular Expression
4 6 (8.96%) Hugging Face
4 6 (8.96%) OAuth2
4 6 (8.96%) OpenCV
4 6 (8.96%) PyTorch
4 6 (8.96%) SpaCy
4 6 (8.96%) TensorFlow
5 4 (5.97%) REST
5 4 (5.97%) RESTful
6 3 (4.48%) Kafka
6 3 (4.48%) Middleware
7 2 (2.99%) .NET
7 2 (2.99%) CSS
7 2 (2.99%) HTML
7 2 (2.99%) LDAP
7 2 (2.99%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.42%) Cloud Native
1 11 (16.42%) Onboarding
2 4 (5.97%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.48%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.99%) Clustering
4 2 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.99%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.99%) Replication
4 2 (2.99%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.49%) CCTV
5 1 (1.49%) FMCG
5 1 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.49%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.49%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.49%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.49%) PDA
5 1 (1.49%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.49%) SCADA
5 1 (1.49%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.49%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.96%) Windows
2 2 (2.99%) Android
2 2 (2.99%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.99%) Linux
2 2 (2.99%) Solaris
2 2 (2.99%) zOS
3 1 (1.49%) MVS
3 1 (1.49%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (50.75%) DevOps
2 24 (35.82%) Agile
2 24 (35.82%) CI/CD
3 17 (25.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (23.88%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (20.90%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (19.40%) Cybersecurity
7 11 (16.42%) Scrum
8 10 (14.93%) GAP Analysis
8 10 (14.93%) RBAC
8 10 (14.93%) Security Testing
9 9 (13.43%) Cloud Security
9 9 (13.43%) DevSecOps
9 9 (13.43%) Identity Access Management
9 9 (13.43%) Identity Management
9 9 (13.43%) Kanban
9 9 (13.43%) Privileged Access Management
10 8 (11.94%) API Testing
10 8 (11.94%) Software Testing
10 8 (11.94%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (29.85%) Python
2 11 (16.42%) SQL
3 10 (14.93%) Java
4 3 (4.48%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.99%) Bicep
5 2 (2.99%) C#
5 2 (2.99%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.49%) Groovy
6 1 (1.49%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (14.93%) ISTQB
2 8 (11.94%) CISM
2 8 (11.94%) CISSP
3 5 (7.46%) Azure Certification
4 3 (4.48%) Degree
5 2 (2.99%) CEH
5 2 (2.99%) GIAC
5 2 (2.99%) GWAPT
5 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.99%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.49%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.45%) GDPR
1 7 (10.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (10.45%) PCI DSS
2 6 (8.96%) NIST
2 6 (8.96%) QA
3 2 (2.99%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.49%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (23.88%) Active Directory
2 6 (8.96%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (7.46%) Docker
4 2 (2.99%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.99%) KVM
4 2 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.49%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (1.49%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.49%) NFS
5 1 (1.49%) Snort
5 1 (1.49%) SRDF
5 1 (1.49%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.49%) Xen
Systems Management
1 23 (34.33%) Kubernetes
2 20 (29.85%) Terraform
3 9 (13.43%) Ansible
3 9 (13.43%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.49%) Puppet
5 1 (1.49%) SCOM
5 1 (1.49%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 26 (38.81%) Microsoft
2 14 (20.90%) Google
3 8 (11.94%) Alibaba
3 8 (11.94%) BeyondTrust
3 8 (11.94%) CyberArk
3 8 (11.94%) F5
3 8 (11.94%) Thycotic
4 5 (7.46%) Cisco
4 5 (7.46%) Databricks
5 3 (4.48%) Imperva
5 3 (4.48%) Oracle
6 2 (2.99%) EMC
6 2 (2.99%) IBM
6 2 (2.99%) NetApp
6 2 (2.99%) VMware
7 1 (1.49%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.49%) BMC
7 1 (1.49%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.49%) Sophos
7 1 (1.49%) Toshiba